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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-08-01
XEsrCHESTER COUNTY.

STy0James Smith, whose real name Is William Ken.
sentenced February "a 1886 by Judge Cowing,
Sing Sing Prison for forgery In the
gree On his arrival there he made hall boy
worked faithfully since Shortly after Saturday
received at the prison and Clerk Babcock
informed village When he arrived
smith had area y been informed Of the good news
III took the 20 this city where he liyes
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-08-01
LONG ISLAND.

CANARsIE-No little indignation IL expressed by the bay
the action OF supervisor Richard L. Beasley Flat
lands in allow the bills OF the baymen recoy
the corpsos from the Inflated Mystery. baymen
iari for ye days Coroner Lindsay
send In their bills 10 tho town board They did
ing IS per day supervisor Beaslcy objects
ground that 81 90 per day Is enough.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-08-01

who have pred ctd throughout the season
American Association will probably be few ieay
true prophets OF The Louis nine undoubtedly
plays seaer consistent game than any other base
ball organization IN the country Whether could play the
in the League TO DO The
clearly classes the other mines much
Hanover Laggard and yet like tho great thor
oughbred, under conditions II Is beatt The
ambition Of the Baltimore club fading rapidly
away and will have do better work than has character
lied s playing Of late TO hold second place The Gin
% anu t th " RiookIrn c,nS
has sho Improvement IN Ito work. and the int
Metropolitan club IL striking
spicuous The Athletics equally uncertain, and the
Cleveland only OF long string OF deeatA
The aames won and lost 70 date are annexed
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-08-01
WHAT Is GOING ON TO-DAY.

Closing OF leather manufact cries at Newark.
Manhattan Elevated Railway tax assessment case supreme
Court o,,...
wards Island Asylum cases before Sherfs jury
Forger Waldo L. Gates case. Tombs Police Court D. m
Inquest murdered Joseph J. Quinn.
Fuueral of stephen s. Hoe, Tarrytown, $3.50 p M
Funeral of Aonzo Hebbard Holy Trinity Church, ii NJ
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-08-01

Pools were sold on satrsday svenng od Flea s17
Of Elizabeth 49, safe Ban So Queen Be's w. HARRY
second race~swift s75 Bnette So Lottery $50 Fori
more SIS. Boaz Sl5 Knight OF Ellersle $l3, field ~
Third race-Miss Motley $26 Bronzomarte $lo fomona
So Vosburg 9, Ed McAvoy 81. - .o,
win as Maggie May So MI Desperation S. Burton 30,
Claus So Hsrrodsburg S. Pat Dennis 80 hed 20
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-08-01
NEWARK

Michael Ryan, living at No 80 Mulberry st. ate oucum
Der Saturday night Within two hours lied Of cholera
norbus.
The booksellers driven ram Newark have arranged to
their places In Harrison Hudson County II under
that they received assurances that they
be disturbed in their new quartera
Phillip Dirkes OF No. 42i Ffth-st, age eighteen, was
drowned while swimming In the Passac on Saturday.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-08-01
HOME NEWS.
PROMINENT ARRIVALS.

Fth Ivenus Rote-Prnce and suite OF siam
Hotel Brunstcck-Baron dc seiere, OF Paris 81
Jdmss HoteiJ. r. Pitkin Of New Orleans Hotel YEN
dome-Miss Emma Abbott
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-08-01

HIS WIFE FEARS HE HAS KILLED HIMSELF.
The disappearance OF Frederick Robra. German baker,
who lived had No. 447 Wost Thirtyelghthst
WAS reported at Police evening sergsan
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-08-01
MARINE INTELLIG ENC.E.
MINIATURES ALMANAC.


sunrises 452 Sets III Moon 24l Moons age l2
wArsa-
A N-sandy Hook b:s4 Gov. Gsrd. 1851 Hell Cato TAO
P.M-Sandy ii ook. 6;53 Gov. Isrd 6;l8 Gate sOI
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-08-01
STATEN ISLAND.

PORT RIcHoxpMessrs Burgess aud Paine are neg9tat,
ing with David the rental of his marin railway
month order that they clean the bottom Oh inc
Volunteer during the international races
ERAsrINA-Twelye baseball players and Joseph Boyle inc
proprietor arrested at Woodcrest Park yesterday
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-08-01
JERSEY CITY,

Dtmar Dhrier laborer living at No 1874 Grandt Ho-
boken returned home Saturday night under the A1usncs Of
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-12

novel plan for protecting the rice fields He
discovered that the appearance of hawk was
sufficient to scare the rice birds off, and he
tried the experiment of putting stuffed hawks,
with wings extended, on high poles and on
various other devices which kept them in mo-
ton. The birds paid no attention to the imi-
tation hawks, but made themselves scarce
when real one scared over them. The plan
recommended by the bureau agent is to Sc
cure number of young hawks and train
them to the business of killing or frightening
the rice-birds. The recommendation has been
approved, and the department will Immediate
ly order supply of hawks and employ an ex-
pert to train them. Thus one by one, the
true functions of government are developed by
this statesmanlike administration, and Repub-
lican abuses give way before Democratic re-
form. The rice bird nuisance in South Caro-
lima is an abuse of long standing yet no Re-
publican administration ever tackled it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-12

AwoMANs foreign missionary society down
in New Jersey has resolved to send no delegate
to the national convention at Cleveland this
year, lowing to the very heavy expense it
would entail upon the society, as the inter-
state-commerce bill prevents the granting
of special rates" Had the originators of this
law realized that they were about to lay a
stumbling block in the path of religion and to
interfere with the conversion of the heather,
perhaps they would have paused in their mad
course before ii was too late.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-12
HAWKS AND HANDSAWS.

In addition to other great reforms demand
ing the attention of the administration it has
under consideration rice bird reform This
is in the interest of solid South, being de-
manded by South Carolina Democrats The
rice bird is known in New England as the
bobolnk, and about Washington as the reed
bird. In New England they love him because
he sings, while at Washington they love him
as a table delicacy. Further south they don't
love i'm at all because he eats rice Hence
they prosecute him. South Carolina planters
complained of his depredations, and asked
the administration to come to their relief OF
course, the President could not go in person
and if he had gone he might not be able to Go,
much. as he is not very good shot. But he
turned the matter over to his trusted lieuten-
ant the Commissioner of Agriculture. A
Washington special says: The Agricultural
Bureau sent a representative of the ornitho-
logical department TO investigate the subject,
and he has made report in which he suggests
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-12
Important Indian Land sniff.

BUFFALO April 1.-The suit of the Seneca
nation of Indians against Harrison B. Christre.
of Brant. Erie county, was before Judge Childs,
claim title to about $50. 900 of land in Erie
and adjoining counties, on the ground that the
treaty of 1926 was not ratified by the United
States Senate in accordance with the provisions
present owners Of the land have not good title TO
that which they hold. Further, that inasmuch
as they are treated wards OF the Nation. the
time which has elapsed is DO bar to action.
Judge Childs said he recognized the great I'M
por,auce of the suit and that. inasmuch as it
would have to be taken to the highest court in
the land for final determination. he thought it
best to save time by directing judgment in
favor of the defendants General strong. Tor the
plaintiffs conceded that speedy course through
the courts would be best, as the farmers are
very much agitated over the suit.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-12
HE ACCOUNTS FOR THE SPOONS.
General Butler Tells Under Oath What HI
Knows of that Silverware.

New York Mail and Express.
Gen. Benjamin F. Butler was on the witness
stand in Washington yesterday in a case brought
in the Court of Claims by the heirs of Gen.
David E. Twiggs. of New Orleans, to recover the
value of certain property taken by the United
States during the military occupation of that
slverware of which the famous spoons const-
tute a part-the spoons of which much has
been said and so little has been known for
twenty five years.
MED that he transferred any property in
New Orleans to his own pocket, but this is the
first time, We believe, that he has been enabled
TO make detailed statement under oath as to
the disposal of the silverware, OF which those
celebrated spoons formed a part
After reciting the circumstance of his oecu-
patton of the Twiggs mansion General Butler
deposes that when he was relieved of his com
mand he asked his successor, General Banks, TO
appoint a property commission. which he did.
An inventory was then taken of all the property
that General Butler and his agents had. and it
was turned over to General Banks and receipt
taken for it. As to the particular parcel con-
tanning the spoons. General Butler says:
There is but one article l have any distinct
remembrance of which was in my personal pos
session. The value of this property not in use
was stored in the custom house, where there
were large vaults, and among it was a tin box
OF jewelry, with most ordinary lock upon it.
My property agents at the time brought
it to me aud said it was very
valuable; the custom house vaults were
open to every body and it might be carried off, |
thsreupon took it from him. sealed it up care
fully, with the ring which then wore upon my
finger and still wear. and took it into my own
safe, and when this inventory was taken l had
it receipted for in the words found in the receipt
One tin box containing jewelry, sealed This
property all went into the actual possession of
Captain Mcclure before left New Orleans. My
property agent had to remain behind to settle I'D
| various matters. and directed him to see to it
that the chief quartermaster signed the receipt.
| which he did on the LIST of January, 1868.
Il have no further personal knowledge Of what
| became of the property"
| This particular and detailed statement made
| under oath in United States court. may be
| presumed to settle finally the once vexed cues
ton of what General Butler did with those
| snoOns.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-12
COMMENT AND OPINION.
cemetery

THE Democratic party needs an issue and a
rallying cry for the next campaign. York
World.
THE Rhode Island mugwumps have handed
the State over to party that hates them and
call it victory. -Philadelphia Press.
Roscoe CoNKLINGs speech befsre the Repub-
lican Club, of Pittsburg, will probably be fol-
lowed by the old political inquiry, NV as that
thunderl'-New York Graphic.
JAY GOULD has not stopped his railroad bust
ness: vet it was but three months ago that he
said he would have to stop if the interstate
commerce bill should be passed-PhSadelphia
Record
THE Knights of Labor do not take kindly to
the suggestion that Alaska be made l'enal col
ony. And yet the knights want the convcts
competing with them left out in the col, Dos
ton Transcript
The information that Mr.. Hall, Of Iowa. has
been made a Commissioner of Patents for hav-
ing aided in clearing Garland is the first Inti-
nation that Garland has been cleared.-Fitts-
burg Chronicle. M
IT is now in order for the Prohibitionists tf
| Michigan to bring forward bill to cede TIL,
been for the miners the prohibitory amendment
| would have been carried.--New York Mail and
| Express
IT was Rum and Rebellion that carried Rhode
| Island. The too utterly tootoo elements
touched elbows with the rum sellers and both
/
| Democrats have a right to crow, and so have the
| rum sellers the rebels deserve a druuhead
| court n ar tial.-Lowel Courier.
The two chief evils of what is called fashioua-
bic society are-frst, its low standard of dignity
and society morals, and, second its false teach
! ing, alike by precept and example, of contempt
| for substantial intelligence and usefulness And
those whose individual memories 20 back to
! humble life and honest industry are often the
most intolerant of everything that fits men and
women for honor and Observation-Disclosures
| Times.
WITH no little alaru, good men read that six
| feminine students have been dismissed from In
diana University for cheating at examinations.
| The near approach of woman suffrage, which is
| to put so many important Offices into feminine
hands. will be regarded with dread and horror il
| disclosures like this are to be made. The young
| woman who cheats in a school examination is
| not too fastidious to how she gets her tolu.
and as a trusted official she would eventually
| make trouble-Courier-Jc
THERE were skeptics rho remarked to Noah
| in the early hours of the delues that it wasn't
going to be much of a shower" There were
plenty of astute observers. too, who ridicuied
the small beg nings of the Abolition movsu emit
But there is a tremendous potency In the public
conscience when thoroughly aroused. Whoever
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-12

son-in-law of a man whose way into the
United States Senate was purchased outright,
be is fairly entitled to represent the reform
Democracy. The baby in the case is no less
distinguished. AS the grandchild of the
Standard Oil Company it ftly typifies the old
fashioned honesty of the Democratic party
and the things that 60 to make the short but
simple annals of the poor. The christening
yesterday was something more than side
show; it was one of the most remarkable
Democratic circuses of this remarkable adj
ministratiop
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-12

can read intelligenty the signs of the times can
not fail to see that the conscience of tine Amer
lean people is being ominously stirred TO revolt
against the growth of the saloon power. What
Is now but a gale will ripen ere long into
cyclone. New York Graphic.
FIRSr we we're told by railroad men before
the interstate-eommerce bill passed, it would
ruin the railroad business. 1t became law:
then We were told it was good thing; the rail-
roads were confident it would be beneficial to
them, and were anxious to conform to It and CO.
operate in its execution. The third day after 1t
went in force it was announced from Philadel-
pha that it was ''the general opinion OF railroad
men that the act was failure Now, wouldn't
1t be good idea for railroad men to wait a
litte-just wait and cool off. They have hot
box. Springfield Republican.
A MILLION and half of men count for some
thing IN country like this, especially if they all
think one way. They tell Congress, for ex-
ample that this land plupder must stop, and at
once; that the rights of corporations are no more
sacred than those of the blest farmer. and
that the government must stand by the poor man
when he is beng robbed. VIII Congress heed
inemf Was there ever time in our political
history when the voice of a million and half
was not heard! Let them speak on this
subject and the land-their land, for it is theirs
viii De guarded. and every specializing syndi-
cate now Systematically stealing the public do
main Will receive a notice-"Hands offn-New
York Herald.
IT is a recognized principle of railroad ethics
that lie is not lie if told in reference to rail-
road affairs; when the Southern Pacific COM
pany advances its rate from 800 to 700 per cent.
on the ground that its through traffic is not
profitable, it is entirely in order to ask its supe-
rior officers why they have continued 1t so long.
and why. if they could not compete successfully
with water carriage, they have not long since
abandoned the carriage of Eastern freight to
the clipper ships and Panama steamers. Their
plea is eaualed only by the country storekesper
who claimed to lose cent a yard on every yard
of calico he sold, and who said that he could not
possibly afford to sell it at that figure if he did
not sell so much of it.-San Francisco Chronicle.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-12

THE gentlemen who amused themselves by
going on Green Smiths bond in his injunction
suit will have chance now to walk up to
the captains Office and settle. The bond was
given to indemnify Colonel Robertson from
damage by reason of the injunction if it was
not sustained, and as it was dissolved by the
Supreme Court the bond becomes effective
of his attorneys fees and other expenses
caused by the Injunction
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-12

Mrs. CLEVELAND injudiciousy betrays
conjugal confidence when she tells a CORE
spondent that such numbers of babies have
been named after the President that ne says
he is afraid that the penitentiaries twenty
years from now will be full os Grover Cleve-
lands. This IS an ungrateful return for the
donors bestowed upon him; but, alas, it is
only too likely that his apprehensions are we'll
founded. Mr.. Cleveland is well acquainted
with the character of the people which make
Up his party and name their babies for him,
and has reason 20 know how they will turn
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-12

THE Journal, speaking in behalf of public
interests, and the comfort and health of the
citizens, wants the streets of this dust-ridden
city sprinkled. The simplest, easiest and
least expensive way in which this can be done
is to have the work performed by the fire de-
partment. The department is supplied with
horses, hose and other necessary appliances,
the hydrants are so located that every square
in the city can be reached, and the fremens
hour devoted morning and evening to the ac-
complishment of this task would interfere
with any interest. Let the dust be laid and
the streets cleaned.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-12
A PARTISAN SCIENCE.

The doctrine Of environments and condi-
lions has many curious illustrations. Cir
cumstances not only alter cases, but some
times make them. The accepted theory of
homology is that a man is the joint result of
heredity and environment-that is, of fate
and circumstances. Philosophers and anthro-
biologists differ as to the comparative influ-
ence to be accorded to each in the formation
of character. Elk Congressman Anderson, of
Ohio seems to attach most weight to environ
ments. A correspondent reports him as say
ing:
Wherever nature is generous and liberal,
there the people are generous and liberal and
are Democrats. We cannot imagine Demo-
Gratis growing upon the sterile and misan-
thropic rocks of Vermont. nor do we find
them there. We find Democrats where ma
ture is full blooded. Take our Ohio counties.
for instance and you will find their natural
resources i'll proportion to their Democratic
majorities, especially as regards agriculture
When you get outside of few cities and that
portion of the reserve peopled by the conserv-
alive Puritans, you will fluid the Republicans
the most plentiful where the ground is the
most sterile and unproductive. Fat lands
make Democrats. Lean lands grow Repub-
Gcaus."
This is new phase of Darwinism. AS a
theory for accounting for the existence of
Democrats it is ingenious, to say the least
1t fully accounts for their prevalence in the
vicinity of distilleries, where a full-blooded
atmosphere prevails and in swamp regions
where, under judicious drainage, the soil is
generous and liberal. 1t also accounts for the
fact that Democrats generally predominant on
very rich soil that does not require cultivat-
ing, while Republicans flourish best where the
soil has to be worked. The curse of labor
seems to attend Republicanism. Democracy
thrives best in the genial air and
tropical climate of the South. Central
America would be splendid country for
Democracy, while Republicanism would prob
ably do better in Canada. The unfortunate
Puritans whose hard fate led them to New
England where they had to work for living,
became the progenitors of a race of Repub-
licans, while the more favored Cavaliers who
found home in South Carolina, with negroes
to do their work, begot race of high-toned
Democrats The theory is full of suggestive
possibilities. 1t occurs to US that if clean
lands grow Republicans" the soil of Indiana
is being rapidly exhausted.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-12

If Governor Hill does not act upon the
high-license bill before Wednesday it will be-
come law anyway If he signs it the whisky
element will be his enemies for ever, and if it
is vetoed the better classes Of society, ire
spective of party, will have no more to do
is pretty tight corner, and the chances are
that he is not getting grain of comfort in
his dilemma from President Cleveland.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-12

SOMETHING keeps turning up every day to
give occupation to the mugwumps 1t will
now be necessary for them to demonstrate to
their own satisfaction that the New England
fishermen, so far from being angry with Pres
ident Cleveland for his response to their re-
quests for protection, are unanimously of the
opinion that he is the only man who can carry
the fishing votes in 1888.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-12

JEFFERsoNIAN simplicity received a new
illustration and impetus in Washington yes
terday. The Whitney baby was chris,ened
according to programme. When we say
''the Whitney baby we aim to be explicit.
There is only one Whitney. and, at present,
only one Whitney baby OF course, the ref
erence is to the eminent exponent of Jeffer-
sonian simplicity who divides his time be-
tween giving swell dinner parties and playing
at Secretary of the Navy. This distinguished
representative Of the people inherited his
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-12
DR.. Mary Walkers Views.

Philade phia Interview
s.Do y.,u think the woman's rights movement
is advanc'ne?" inquired the reporter.
mo- sa id Dr. Walker most decidedly. s'The
women wn,, are agitating the question now are
irving 70 ge an amendment to the Constitution
which ia absurd We have the right to vote by
the Constitut ion, and we do not need an amend
ment"
..Would it no ( be well to have one, merely as
a matter of FORM, asked the reporter"
mo: not at ALL We have the right by law;
we only need to b ave the law enforced
II suppose you would leave the matter of
dress to every won ans individual tasfe?n
.Of course If " omen wish to make guys of
themselves they hav,N a right to do it with humps
and uncomfortable ga rments. Their clothes are
simply a token of THEM slavery to man"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-12

THE Panhandle railroad is to be congrat
ulated on having broken up an extensive or
ganization by which it has been Systematically
robbed for some time past. The operations
indicate very general Generalization among a
certain class of employees and the wholesale
arrests will cause a panic. The detective
work leading to the arrests seems to have been
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-12

A New YORK judge has decided that par
ent has right to give his or her child away,
and that it can be demanded back no more
rightfully than can any other piece of prop
erty which has been bestowed as gift
Whether under such circumstances the child
owes the same allegiance to its new owner
which would have been due its parents, is a
question into which the court did not enter
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-12

Mr.. "SIM" Cox did not capture the Union
Labor party last night. Possibly the dis
tinguished Democratic boss was mistaken
when he said he owned the Labor men, and
could pocket them at the proper time.